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WMA European Region Meeting
\non End-of-Life Questions
\n16-17 November 2017
\nAula Vecchia del Sinodo, Vatican
\nForeword
\nWelcome to the World Medical Association\u2019s European Region Meeting on End-of-Life Questions, jointly
\norganized by the Pontifical Academy for Life, the World Medical Association and the German Medical
\nAssociation.
\nMany countries around the world have increasingly faced crucial policy debates about euthanasia,
\nphysician-assisted suicide and end-of-life issues in recent years. Life-saving improvements in medical
\ntechnology and increasing life expectancy have brought these issues to the fore in the global medical
\nprofession, its representative organizations, and consequently the World Medical Association (WMA).
\nGiven the range of approaches to these issues embraced by some of the 114 member organizations of
\nthe WMA, it is only natural for end-of-life questions to be actively explored and analyzed in the
\ndevelopment of policy papers, as well as in the context of the WMA\u2019s annual in-person meetings.
\nTo build upon these vibrant discussions and lay bare the current state of debate in various parts of the
\nworld, the WMA, prompted by its Medical Ethics Committee, initiated a series of regional conferences to
\nbe held in cities on nearly all continents, including Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro, and now, the Vatican City for
\nthe European region.
\nHere in this two-day conference in the historic Aula Vecchia del Sinodo, we will hear from medical
\nprofessionals, legal authorities, experts in palliative care and medical ethics, theological scholars and
\nphilosophers who will share their insights on a broad spectrum of opinions on end-of-life issues from a
\nuniquely European perspective.
\nIn the spirit of openness, respect and exchange, we welcome you, the audience, to contribute your voice
\nto this dialogue on one of the most deeply personal issues faced by medical professionals worldwide.
\nProf. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery
\nPresident
\nGerman Medical Association
\nMsgr. Renzo Pegoraro
\nChancellor
\nPontifical Academy for Life
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\n08:15 Doors open for registration and admission \u2013 please arrive early to pass through security
\nChair: Dr Ramin Parsa-Parsi, Head of the Department for International Affairs, German Medical Association
\nChair: Dr Matilde Leonardi, Scientific Director, Coma Research Centre, Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan
\n09:00 \u2013 09:45 Welcome
\nWMA: Dr Yoshitake Yokokura, President, World Medical Association
\nGMA: Prof. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery, President, German Medical Association
\nMessage from Pope Francis, delivered by one of his delegates
\nPAV: Archbishop Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia, President, Pontifical Academy for Life
\n09:45 \u2013 11:00 I. Setting the stage: Three perspectives on end-of-life questions
\nEnd-of-life questions: Perspectives from the global medical profession
\nProf. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery, President, German Medical Association; Vice-Chair, World
\nMedical Association
\nEuthanasia in the Netherlands: Balancing autonomy and compassion
\nDr Ren\u00e9 H\u00e9man, Chairman, Royal Dutch Medical Association
\nAssisted suicide in Switzerland: Practice and challenges
\nDr Yvonne Gilli, Board Member, Swiss Medical Association
\nImmediate questions (to be continued in plenary panel discussion on Friday in session VIII)
\n11:00 \u2013 11:30 Coffee break
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 II. Theological approaches
\nSuffering at the end of life. Christian references and their use.
\nProf. Marie-Jo Thiel, Director, European Centre for Teaching and Research in Ethics, and
\nProfessor of Ethics and Moral Theology, University of Strasbourg
\nEnd-of-life questions from the Jewish perspective
\nDr Riccardo Di Segni, Rabbino Capo, Comunit\u00e0 Ebraica di Roma
\nEthical evaluation of end-of-life questions from the Islamic perspective
\nProf. Dr Ilhan Ilkilic, Professor and chair of the Department of History of Medicine and Ethics,
\nIstanbul University Faculty of Medicine
\nAn Orthodox perspective on suffering at the end of life
\nDr Daniela Mosoiu, Director for Education and National Development, Hospice \u201cCasa Sperantei\u201d
\nDiscussion
\nDay 1 – Thursday, 16 November 2017
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\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 Lunch
\nChair: Dr Andrew Dearden, Treasurer and Council Member, British Medical Association
\nChair: Prof. Dr Carlos Centeno, Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Cl\u00ednica Universidad de Navarra
\n14:00 \u2013 14:45 III. Delineating euthanasia and PAS in the systems of Common and Roman Law
\nEuthanasia, physician-assisted suicide and the common law
\nProf. John Keown, Professor of Christian Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown
\nUniversity
\nEuthanasia and PAS
\nProf. Dr. Dr. h.c. Volker Lipp, Professor of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Medical Law and Comparative
\nLaw, Georg-August-Universit\u00e4t, G\u00f6ttingen; Member of GMA\u2019s Central Ethics Committee
\nDiscussion
\n14:45 \u2013 15:00 IV. Guide on the decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations
\nGuide on the decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations
\nDr Laurence Lwoff, Head of Bioethics Unit, Human Rights Directorate, Council of Europe
\n15:00 \u2013 15:30 Coffee break
\n15:30 \u2013 17:00 V. Compassionate use and conscientious objection
\nIs medical assistance in dying a platitudinous medical treatment?
\nProf. Dr Leonid Eidelman, President, Israeli Medical Association
\nConscientious objections in end-of-life care
\nProf. Chris Gastmans, Professor of Medical Ethics, University of Leuven
\nMedical compassion at the end of life
\nProf. Pablo Requena, MD, STD, Professor of Moral Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy
\nCross, Delegate of the Vatican Medical Association to the WMA
\nDiscussion
\n17:00 Closing
\n18:15
\nTour of Vatican Museum (Meet at Sant\u2019 Anne Gate), followed by Gala Dinner in the Vatican
\nMuseum
\nDay 1 – Thursday, 16 November 2017
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\nChair: Dr Heidi Stensmyren, President, Swedish Medical Association
\nChair: Prof. Stefano Semplici, Past Chair, UNESCO International Bioethics Committee
\n9:00 \u2013 9:15 Welcome and recap of first day
\nDr Otmar Kloiber, Secretary General, World Medical Association
\n9:15 \u2013 10:15 VI. Is there a right to determine one\u2019s own death?
\nIs there a right to determine one\u2019s own death? \u2013 The ethical perspective(s)
\nProf. Dr Urban Wiesing, Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen
\nRight to live, right to die?
\nProf. Dr Christiane Druml, Chairperson of the Austrian Bioethics Commission and UNESCO Chair of
\nBioethics at the Medical University of Vienna
\nOn rights and risks: The case against physician assisted suicide and killing on demand
\nProf. Dr Stephan Sahm, Director Medical Clinic I, Ketteler Hospital, Offenbach, Professor, Institute
\nfor History and Ethics in Medicine, Frankfurt University
\nImmediate questions (to be continued in plenary panel discussion in the afternoon in session
\nVIII)
\n10:15 \u2013 11:00 VII. Treatment limitations vs. euthanasia. End stage decisions about medication, feeding and
\nterminal sedation
\nSedation, nutrition, hydratation at the end of life: How to decide?
\nDr Anne de la Tour, President of the French Society of Palliative Care, Argenteuil
\nAs in all other clinical situations: Choose effective treatment with minimal risks
\nDr Gunnar Eckerdal, Dept. of Oncology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital
\nDiscussion
\n11:00 \u2013 11:30 Coffee break
\nDay 2 – Friday, 17 November 2017
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\nDay 2 – Friday, 17 November 2017
\n11:30 \u2013 13:00 VIII. Dealing with public and published opinions
\nA patient\u2019s perspective \u2013 First notes
\nDr Marco Greco, President, European Patients\u2019 Forum
\nThe Finnish experience of the public debate
\nDr Heikki P\u00e4lve, Past CEO, Finnish Medical Association
\nEnd-of-life and public discourse in democratic society
\nProf. Ralf J. Jox, Institute for Ethics, History and Theory of Medicine, University of Munich;
\nGeriatric Palliative Care, University Hospital Lausanne
\nPortraying assisted suicide and euthanasia
\nBaroness Ilora Finlay, Professor of Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University; Crossbench Peer, House
\nof Lords
\nDiscussion
\n13:00 \u2013 14:00 Lunch
\nChair: Dr Ardis Hoven, Chair of Council, World Medical Association
\nChair: Prof. John Keown, Professor of Christian Ethics, Kennedy Institute of Ethics
\n14:00 \u2013 15:30 IX. Is there a need to change policy? – Plenary panel discussion
\nPanelists:
\nDr Yvonne Gilli, Board Member, Swiss Medical Association
\nDr Matilde Leonardi, Scientific Director, Coma Research Centre, Istituto Neurologico Carlo Best,
\nMilan
\nProf. Dr Urban Wiesing, Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tuebingen
\nProf. Dr Stephan Sahm, Director Medical Clinic I, Ketteler Hospital, Offenbach, Professor,
\nInstitute for History and Ethics in Medicine, Frankfurt University
\nDr Ren\u00e9 H\u00e9man, Chairman, Royal Dutch Medical Association
\nProf. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery, President, German Medical Association
\n15:30 Closing remarks
\nArchbishop Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia, President, Pontifical Academy for Life
\n15:35 Coffee and farewell
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\nChairs and speakers
\nProf. Dr Carlos Centeno is professor and director of the Department of Palliative Medicine of the
\nHospital University of Navarra (Spain) and director of ATLANTES research group, Institute Culture and
\nSociety of the University of Navarra. This group has extensive experience in ATLAS studies of the global
\ndevelopment of palliative care in the world. In the clinical field, its publications focus on symptomatic
\ncontrol, particularly on asthenia. He has investigated on the concepts of dignity in care and gratitude in
\nthe professional-patient relationship. He is a professor of palliative medicine at the University of Navarra
\nand maintains an original line of research on medical education in palliative care in undergraduate
\ncourses.
\nDr Andrew Dearden is the treasurer of the BMA and a member of BMA council. He has previously
\nserved as chairman of both the BMA’s pensions committee and BMA Wales council. As chair of the
\npensions committee, he led the BMA in our NHS pension negotiations from 2006-2009. In the past he
\nhas chaired the BMA Wales GP trainee committee, the GPC (Wales) and the BMA’s community care
\ncommittee. He was also involved in the GMS negotiations between 2003 and 2006. Dr Dearden is
\ncurrently a GP based in Cardiff and a fellow of the BMA and Royal College of GPs.
\nDr Anne de La Tour, a former nurse and now a doctor, has been working in palliative care for the last 25
\nyears, mainly in France, and in the UK. She is now the Head of a Palliative Care and Chronical Pain
\ndepartment near Paris. She is also the president of the SFAP, French Society of Palliative Care. The SFAP
\nis at the same time a learned society and a civil movement which regroups thousands of Palliative Care
\nprofessionals and accompanying volunteers. It works hard to improve end-of-life conditions in France
\nthrough scientific research and political action. She is married and mother of four children.
\nRabbi Riccardo Di Segni is the chief rabbi of Rome. A specialist in diagnostic radiology, he is descended
\nfrom three generations of rabbis. He completed his rabbinical studies in 1973 and was elected chief
\nrabbi of Rome in 2001.
\nProf. Dr Christiane Druml was born in Vienna and studied law at the University of Vienna. Currently she
\nis holding the UNESCO Chair on Bioethics and serves as Director of Ethics, Collections and History at
\nMedicine of the Medical University of Vienna. Since 2007, she has been President of the Austrian
\nNational Bioethics Commission and a member of the Medical Council of the Republic of Austria. Among
\nother international responsibilities, she serves on the scientific council of the \u201cAgence nationale de
\ns\u00e9curit\u00e9 du medicament et des produits de la sant\u00e9 (ANSM),\u201din France. In 2011, she was awarded the
\nAustrian Cross of Honour for Science and Arts and the Ordre National de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur, France.
\nDr Gunnar Eckerdal, *1953, has been engaged in palliative medicine for 35 years. He started as
\ngeriatrician in home-care, and has for 25 years worked in hospice and in palliative supportive teams. For
\n3 years, he has been a consultant in pain medicine in the department of oncology, Sahlgrenska
\nUniversity Hospital, G\u00f6teborg. Gunnar Eckerdal has been engaged in developing national ethical
\nguidelines and teaches young doctors in topics like \u201cDecision process in clinical practice\u201d, \u201cDo not
\nresuscitate, DNR\u201d, euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, PAS.
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\nDr Leonid Eidelman completed his MD in 1975 in Latvia, where he worked in anaesthesiology\/intensive
\ncare medicine until moving to Israel. Since 1997, Dr. Eidelman has served as the Head of
\nAnaesthesiology and Director of O.R. Management at Rabin Medical Center. He is currently serving his
\nsecond term as president of the Israeli Medical Association. Dr Eidelman served as the chairman of the
\nIsrael Society of Anesthesiologists from 2002 to 2005. In 1989, Dr Eidelman began tutoring residents in
\nanesthesiology and critical care medicine at Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical School. Dr Eidelman
\nlectures and teaches medical students at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University, where he
\nis an associate professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. He frequently lectures in Israel
\nand abroad on health and medical issues and has published many articles in the fields of Anesthesiology
\nand Intensive Care Medicine.
\nProfessor the Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, FRCP, FRCGP, FMedSci, FHEA, FLSW, FCEM, is Hon. Professor
\nof Palliative Medicine, Cardiff University; developed palliative \/hospice services across Wales to establish
\n7day services plus 24\/7 advice; patient evaluation through iWantGreatCare. UK lead of UNESCO chair in
\nbioethics. She chairs the National Mental Capacity Forum (Ministry of Justice and Dept of Health).
\nCrossbench Peer and was on Select Committee on the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill. She co-
\nchairs the think-tank Living and Dying Well and also served on ELCPAD group for BMA. Vice-President:
\nMarie Curie Care; Hospice UK. Past President: Medical Women\u2019s Federation, British Medical Association,
\nRoyal Society of Medicine, Association for Palliative Medicine. President; Chartered Society for
\nPhysiotherapy.
\nProf. Chris Gastmans is Full Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics
\nand Law, Faculty of Medicine, KU Leuven, Belgium. From 2002 till 2015, he was member of the Bureau \u2013
\nas Secretary General, Treasurer, and President \u2013 of the European Association of Centres of Medical
\nEthics (EACME) to which 66 centres for medical ethics in Europe are affiliated. Chris Gastmans is the
\ncoordinator of various empirical and philosophical research projects regarding ethical issues in care for
\nolder adults and end-of-life care. He published more than 120 peer reviewed articles and book chapters.
\nHe recently co-edited \u2018Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium\u2019 (2017, Cambridge
\nUniversity Press).
\nDr Yvonne Gilli became a medical doctor after studies at the University of Zurich with a specialization in
\nInternal Medicine. She was a member of the National Council of Switzerland from 2007 \u2013 2015. Since
\n1996 she has engaged in medical work in her own medical office in Wil SG. She has been a member of
\nthe Board of the Swiss Medical Association since 2016. She was also a member of the foundation board
\nof the Swiss NGO for patients from 2011 \u2013 2014, held the presidency for Eastern Part of Switzerland
\nfrom 2015 \u2013 2017 and has been a member of the supervisory board xundart AG, a managed care
\norganization, since 2010.
\nDr Marco Greco is chairman of the European Patients’ Forum and past chair of the European Federation
\nof Crohn’s and Ulcerative Colitis Associations. He is patients’ representative in the Pharmacovigilance
\nRisk Assessment Committee at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and a member of the EMA
\nPatients and Consumers Working Party (PCWP). After an LL.MM in Law, he has earned a Ph.D in Law and
\nReligion (Discipline canonistiche ed ecclesiasticistiche) at Universit\u00e0 Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano,
\nwhere he still collaborates as assistant of Prof. Romeo Astorri (Canon law, History and Systems of
\nChurch-State relationships) after a period of research spent at George Washington University School of
\nLaw, in Washington D.C. (USA). His main area of research focuses on the relationship between law and
\nreligion in the healthcare system. He is a lawyer working as law consultant and attorney.
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\nChairs and speakers
\nDr Ren\u00e9 H\u00e9man has chaired the Board of the Royal Medical Association since March 2016. He is doctor
\nof Public Health and worked as managing director and deputy director in several health care institutions
\nin the Netherlands and several countries in Africa. He is also a board member of the PGGM pension
\nadministrator for Health Care and Welfare staff and Chairman of the Federation of professional
\norganizations, union for health care professionals.
\nDr Ardis Dee Hoven, M.D., an internal medicine and infectious disease specialist residing in Lexington
\nKentucky currently serves as the Chair of Council of the World Medical Association. Prior to this work,
\nDr. Hoven served as President of the American Medical Association and also served as Chair of the Board
\nof Trustees of the AMA. Dr. Hoven received her undergraduate degree in microbiology and her medical
\nschool education from the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She completed her internal medicine and
\ninfectious disease training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. As a physician and during the
\nAIDS epidemic, she became an educator and leader in the state regarding the appropriate care and
\ntreatment of patients with HIV and AIDS. Ultimately her interest in health policy issues led her to
\nleadership positions within many organizations in the United States. Dr. Hoven currently is Professor of
\nMedicine at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and serves as an Infectious Disease
\nConsultant to the Kentucky Department for Public Health.
\nProf. Dr Ilhan Ilkilic, MD, PhD, has studied medicine, philosophy, Islamic science and oriental philology
\nin Istanbul, Bochum and T\u00fcbingen. His special interests include genetics and ethics, intercultural
\nbioethics, Islamic biomedical ethics and ethical issues at the end of life. He is since 2012 member of the
\nGerman Ethics Council. He is currently Professor and Director at the Department of History of Medicine
\nand Ethics at the Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Health Sciences
\nat the Istanbul University.
\nProf. Dr Ralf J. Jox, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Geriatric Palliative Care at Lausanne University
\nHospital, Switzerland, and Assistant Professor for Medical Ethics at the University of Munich, Germany.
\nHis research focuses on end-of-life ethics, geriatrics ethics, neuroethics, and clinical ethics. He studied
\nmedicine at the Universities of Freiburg, Munich and Harvard Medical School. As a philosophical ethicist,
\nDr Jox was trained at the Jesuit School of Philosophy in Munich and King\u2019s College London. He authored
\na well-known book on end-of-life decisions and has critically contributed to the political discussion on
\nthe German law on assisted suicide.
\nProf. John Keown DCL (Oxon.) holds the Rose Kennedy Chair in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at
\nGeorgetown University. Formerly, he taught the law and ethics of medicine in the Cambridge Law
\nFaculty. His books include Euthanasia Examined (CUP, 1995); Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy (CUP,
\n2002; 2nd edition forthcoming 2018); Debating Euthanasia (with Emily Jackson; Hart, 2012); The Law
\nand Ethics of Medicine (OUP, 2012); and Bioethics and the Human Goods (with Alfonso G\u00f3mez-Lobo;
\nGUP, 2015). His research on euthanasia has been cited by the Law Lords and by the US Supreme Court.
\nDr Otmar Kloiber is Secretary General of the World Medical Association since 2005. Before he was
\nDeputy Secretary General of the German Medical Association. He holds an MD (1984) and PhD (1986)
\nfrom University of Cologne, was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the
\nUniversity of Minnesota, and was a scientific research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for
\nNeurological Research. He holds an honorary doctorate by the Victor Babes University, Timisoara,
\nRomania and was appointed Clinical Professor in Health Administration at the Brooks College of Health,
\nUniversity of North Florida from 2009 to 2013.
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\nDr Matilde Leonardi is a neurologist and paediatrician. At Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico Besta
\nshe is developing and carrying out research projects related to chronic diseases and employment,
\ndisability, ageing, public health, ICF (WHO\u2019s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and
\nHealth). Dr. Leonardi is a WHO expert on disability and ageing and co-chair of the WHO-FIC (Family of
\nInternational Classifications) Functioning and Disability Reference Group. Coordinator and partner of
\nseveral, EU- and non EU-funded research projects. She is a consultant on public health, UNCRPD
\nmonitoring and disability policy development for several European and extra European governments.
\nShe is also an expert for the European Commission on public health, ageing, disability and
\nneurosciences. In 2011, she was appointed as corresponding member of the Pontificia Academia Pro
\nVita. She is a Professor of Neuropsychiatric Aspects of Disability and member since 2007 of the Board of
\nDirectors of the Bioethics Centre at the Catholic University of Milan. From 2010 to 2013, she was
\nappointed by the Italian government as president of the Scientific Committee of the National
\nObservatory on Disability.
\nProf. Dr Volker Lipp (* 1962) holds the Chair of Civil Law, Civil Procedure, Medical Law and Comparative
\nLaw at the Faculty of Law, University of G\u00f6ttingen, Germany. He was, inter alia, Founding Director and is
\nnow Director of the G\u00f6ttingen Center for Medical Law. He has also been Visiting Professor at the
\nUniversity of Bergen, Norway, and at Chuo-University, Tokyo, Japan. He is honorary member of the
\nJapan Adult Guardianship Association and became Doctor et Professor honoris causa of E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lorand
\nUniversity, Budapest, Hungary in 2016. Volker Lipp is a Member of the Commission for Fundamental
\nEthical and Medico-Legal Issues of the Board of the German Medical Association (since 2007), and a
\nMember of the Central Ethics Commission at the German Medical Association (since 2010). He is also
\nMember of the Ethics Committee for Medical Research at the University Medical Center G\u00f6ttingen. In
\n2016 he has been appointed by the President of the the German Federal Parliament to the German
\nEthics Council. His research focuses on medical law, family law, and civil procedure, both in Germany as
\nwell as on the European and international level, and he has published and lectured extensively in these
\nfields.
\nDr Laurence Lwoff holds a MSc. in reproductive physiology from the University of Paris VI \u2013 Jussieu
\n(France). She then obtained her degree from the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (France)
\nin 1986 and received her PhD in molecular biology in 1989. She joined the Council of Europe in 1991 in
\nthe Directorate of Legal Affairs. She was the Secretary of the International Conference of the Council of
\nEurope on Ethical Issues Arising from the Applications of Biotechnology (Oviedo, Spain, May 1999). In
\n2002, she joined the Bioethics Department where she has been responsible in particular for the
\nactivities on human genetics and on the protection of the human embryo and the foetus. She was the
\nSecretary of the Group in charge of the elaboration of the Additional Protocol to the Convention on
\nHuman Rights and Biomedicine, concerning Genetic Testing for Health Purposes. Since 2013, she is
\ncurrently the Head of Bioethics Unit (DGI – Human Rights Directorate) and Secretary of the Committee
\non Bioethics (DH-BIO), intergovernmental committee in charge of the activities on the protection of
\nhuman rights in the biomedical field, at the Council of Europe.
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\nChairs and speakers
\nProf. Dr Frank Ulrich Montgomery, a radiologist from Hamburg, was elected President of the German
\nMedical Association (GMA) in 2011. Before assuming this position, he had been Vice-President of the
\nGMA since 2007 and a member of the Executive Board between 1987 and 2002, and again from 2006.
\nProf. Montgomery was Chairman of the Marburger Bund, the professional organisation of the hospital-
\nbased and employed physicians of Germany, from 1989 until 2007. He currently serves as vice-
\nchairperson of the World Medical Association (WMA) and treasurer of the Standing Committee of
\nEuropean Doctors (CPME).
\nDr Daniela Mosoiu trained as oncologist with subspecialty in palliative care and serves as Director for
\nEducation and National Development at HOSPICE Casa Sperantei and leader of the Romanian palliative
\ncare movement. She supervises the educational programs, national development and advocacy work in
\nRomania for development of palliative care services and integration in the national health care system.
\nShe also offers education and support for palliative care development in 18 other Central and Eastern
\nEuropean countries. She is President of Palliative Care Advisory Commission of the Romanian Health
\nMinistry. She coordinates the master\u2019s program at Transylvania University and the Palliative Care
\nSubspecialty National Program. She also has extensive experience and expertise in project management,
\nresearch projects, nationally and internationally. She is member of the EAPC Board, the Editorial Board
\nof the European Journal of Palliative Care and Paliatia.
\nArchbishop Msgr. Vincenzo Paglia was born in Boville Ernica (Frosinone, Italy) in 1945 and obtained the
\ndegree in theology and philosophy from the Lateran University and another one in pedagogy from the
\nUniversity of Urbino. He was ordained as priest in 1970, and from 1981 to 2000 served as parish priest in
\nthe Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome; he was also the ecclesiastical assistant of the
\nCommunity of Sant\u2019Egidio and is the postulator of the cause of beatification of the Archbishop of San
\nSalvador, Oscar Arnulfo Romero. In 2000 he was ordained as Bishop of Terni Narni Amelia in the
\nCathedral of St. John Lateran. Since 2002, he is president of the International Catholic Biblical Federation
\nand, from 2004 to 2009, he was also chairman of the Commission Ecumenism and Dialogue of the Italian
\nEpiscopal Conference. For his work in peace he received, in 1999, the UNESCO\u2019s Gandhi Medal and in
\n2003 the Mother Teresa Prize of Albanian Government. He has collaborated with the Department of
\nContemporary History at the Sapienza University of Rome and has published studies and articles on the
\nsocial and religious history as well as on the history of poverty. On 26 June 2012, Pope Benedict XVI
\nelevated him to the dignity of archbishop and appointed him president of the Pontifical Council for the
\nFamily. On 17 August 2016 has been appointed President of the Pontifical Academy for Life and Grand
\nChancellor of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
\nDr Heikki P\u00e4lve is the newly retired CEO of the Finnish Medical Association. He graduated in 1980 and
\nspecialised in anaesthesia and intensive care in 1987. He served in the Turku University Hospital as an
\nassociate professor in anaesthesia and intensive care 1988 \u2013 2005 and worked as an emergency
\nhelicopter physician for five years. He was the president of the FMA 2001 \u2013 2003 and CEO 2005 – 2017.
\nHe has been the vice-president of the Finnish Academics Organisation. He served as the Vice-President
\nof the European Physicians\u2019 (CPME) 2012 \u2013 2015 and has been a board member since 2005. Dr. Palve
\nhas been an active delegate of the World Medical Association (WMA) since 2001. He has been the Chair
\nof the Medical Ethics Committee 2014 \u2013 2017. Heikki has been also politically active and has been
\nmember of the city council in Turku and member of the board of the University of Turku.
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\nDr Ramin Parsa-Parsi, MD, MPH, is the Head of the Department for International Affairs at the German
\nMedical Association (GMA) in Berlin, Germany. Prior to joining the GMA, Dr Parsa-Parsi worked with
\nHarvard Medical International in Boston, USA, as the Director of Health Policy. He is a member of the
\nCouncil of the World Medical Association (WMA) and chaired international workgroups for the 2013
\nrevision of the WMA Declaration of Helsinki and the 2017 revision of the Declaration of Geneva. Dr
\nParsa-Parsi holds a master\u2019s degree in public health from Harvard University, obtained a doctoral degree
\nat the Institute of Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany, and received his MD
\nfrom the University of Cologne in Germany, where he also did his postgraduate medical education in
\nHematology\/Oncology.
\nProf. Pablo Requena Meana, MD STD, was born in Cartagena, Murcia (Spain), on July 21, 1969. As a
\nphysician (1993) and Catholic priest (2002), Assistant Professor of Moral Theology and Bioethics, School
\nof Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome, Italy), and delegate of the Vatican Medical
\nAssociation for the World Medical Association (2012 \u2013 present), his areas of interest include principlism
\nand methods for bioethics, sacrality of life and dignity, and end of life issues. His recent publications
\ninclude, Why Should the World Medical Association not Change its Policy towards Euthanasia?, \u201cWorld
\nMedical Journal\u201d 62, 3(2016), 99-103; P. Requena, N. Comoretto, C. Petrini, Clinical Ethics: status
\nquaestionis, \u201cPersona y bio\u00e9tica\u201d 20, 1(2016), 26-37.
\nProf. Dr Stephan Sahm is Director of the Medical Clinic at Ketteler Hospital, which is part of Frankfurt
\nUniversity\u00b4s Comprehensive Cancer Center. After academic education in philosophy and medicine, he
\ngraduated in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterolgy and Palliative Care. At the same time he gained a
\nqualification (Habilitation) in Bioethics and was appointed Professor for Medical Ethics at Frankfurt
\nUniversity Medical School. Stephan Sahm has published in academic journals and textbooks and
\nauthored a book on ethics of end-of-life care. He had been frequently invited as an expert in
\nParliamentary hearings and is a regular commentator on medical ethics for the Frankfurter Allgemeine
\nZeitung.
\nDr Stefano Semplici is professor of Social Ethics at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, where he is also
\na member of the teaching board of the PhD in Philosophy (jointly organized with The University of
\n\u201cRoma Tre\u201d). He is the chair (since 2014) of the Committee for Bioethics of the Italian Society of
\nPediatrics and an Associate Editor of the journal \u00abMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy\u00bb (since 2010).
\nHe was the Chair of the International Bioethics Committe of UNESCO from 2011 to 2015, Editor and later
\nCoeditor of the journal \u00abArchivio di filosofia\/Archives of Philosophy\u00bb, and Scientific Director of the
\nUniversity College \u00abLamaro-Pozzani\u00bb.
\nDr Heidi Stensmyren is president of the Swedish Medical Association (SMA) since 2014. She also chairs
\nthe SMAs delegation of negotiating salaries and collective agreements for physicians on the Swedish
\nlabour market. Dr Stensmyren is council member of the WMA since 2015 and chairs the Medical Ethics
\nCommittee since 2017. She works as a specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive care at Danderyd
\nUniversity Hospital, and holds an M.D. from the University of W\u00fcrzburg. Dr Stensmyren has been
\ninvolved as expert in several Swedish government committees such as the Organ Donation Committee,
\nbetween 2013-2015 and the Profits in Welfare inquiry, 2015-2017. She was president of the Swedish
\njunior Doctors between 2007-2009, chair in the Organ Donation Council between 2012-2015 and
\npresident of the Stockholm Medical Association between 2013-2014. She has a specific passion for
\nethics and leadership issues.
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\nChairs and speakers
\nProf. Marie-Jo Thiel is Professor at the University of Strasbourg (France); Director of the European
\nCentre for the Study and Teaching of Ethics (CEERE) of the same University. She is member of numerous
\nethics committees, and has been member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New
\nTechnologies (EGE) for the European Commission (EU). She has written a lot of articles and books. Her
\nlatest issues: La sant\u00e9 augment\u00e9e: r\u00e9aliste ou totalitaire (Bayard, 2014); Les enjeux \u00e9thiques du handicap
\n(PUS, 2014), Ethical challenges of Ageing (RSM, 2013), Ethische Fragen der \u00abBehinderung\u00bb. Ethical
\nChallenges of Disability (Lit Verlag, 2014), D\u00e9sirable vuln\u00e9rabilit\u00e9 ? (PUS 2016).
\nProf. Dr Urban Wiesing was born in 1958 in Ahlen\/Westf, and studied medicine, philosophy, sociology
\nand history of medicine in Muenster and Berlin. He earned his Dr. med. in 1987 and Dr. phil. in 1995.
\nFrom 1985 to 1988, he was a physician in anaesthesiology and internal medicine. From 1988 to 1998, he
\nwas assistant at the Institute of Theory and History of Medicine at the University of Muenster and in
\n1993 he completed his \u201cHabilitation\u201d and was a lecturer for theory and history of medicine. Since 1998,
\nhe has served as Professor and Chair of Medical Ethics at the University of Tuebingen, where he is also
\nDirector of the Institute of History of Medicine. From 2004 to 2013, he was Chair of the Central Ethics
\nCommittee of the Federal Board of Physicians.
\nDr Yoshitake Yokokura, M.D., Ph.D, graduated from the Kurume University School of Medicine in
\nMarch, 1969, and worked for the surgery department of the University. After that he worked for the
\nsurgery department of the Detmold Hospital in Germany for two years (1977-79). He has been President
\nof the Yokokura Hospital since 1990. He was elected as President of the Japan Medical Association in
\nApril 2012. He also served Council Member of the World Medical Association (WMA) from 2010 to 2016.
\nHe serves as President of the WMA (2017-18) and President (2017-18) of the Confederation of Medical
\nAssociations in Asia and Oceania.
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